Middle East

Occupied Ramallah: A Palestinian gunman fired at Israeli soldiers and military police during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday and the Israeli...

South of Mosul: The mouth of the tunnel is hardly visible on a muddy hillside overlooking Mosul, where fighting now rages between Iraqi forces and IS...

Ankara: A Syrian pilot whose plane crashed in Turkey on Saturday said in an initial statement to Turkish authorities that his aircraft was shot down on its...

Dubai: Iran and neighbouring Azerbaijan agreed on Sunday to work towards completing their portion of a planned freight railway route from Europe to South...

Baghdad: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces are about to reach the main government complex in Mosul, their next target in the offensive to dislodge IS from the city,...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to voice opposition to what...

Palmyra: IS militants have severely damaged a major Roman monument in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, an antiquities official said after visiting the...

Istanbul: A Syrian air force pilot who bailed out as his warplane crashed on Turkish territory has been found by a Turkish rescue team and is being treated...

Benghazi/Tripoli: East Libyan forces carried out air strikes around major oil ports overnight as they sought to regain control of the area from a rival...

Baghdad: Twelve people, including women and children, are being treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul, where IS is fighting off...